What's with all the negative space? I left this photo unaltered so you could all appreciate the vast emptiness on this headstone. Perhaps it represents vast emptiness. Perhaps there were supposed to be some roses carved there. Or, maybe the tombstone guy forgot to carve a poor likeness of Kermit the Frog driving a Corvette towards a giant Miami Dolphins helmet.
WMD, we'll never know.
You will note that poor Frederick was predeceased by his beloved Effie May by some nine years. After that, he was at a loss for words...
ReplyDeleteI feel like there should be a dry erase marker on a string hanging off the stone so visitors could write sentiments, or shopping lists, or something
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a blank scroll. Maybe they couldn't agree on what to engrave on the scroll, so they left it blank.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe when they told the tombstone guy that they wanted a big "Spiese" he thought they had an accent and took them literally.
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